Reinhold Balins ( 1912 . On 13 March Riga - 1988 . On June 30 , Riga ) was a Latvian lawyer and chess player .

Biography
Born in 1912, John Baldan, a member of the 1905 Revolutionist (in the family. During the First World War he and his family evacuated to Smiltene , where Reinhold's mother died in 1916. In 1918 the family returned to Riga, during the Latvian SSR Janis Balņš was a war tribunal He escaped to Soviet Russia in 1919 and 1919. In 1920, Reinhold's cancer- lady was taken to his father to Russia, but died in 1923. Reinhold was placed in the Leningrad Children's House in 1924. His father was arrested and imprisoned in Gulag camps . 1 In 1929, Reinhold Baalņš graduated from high school in Leningrad, losing his left hand in the same year. In 1932 he graduated from the Leningrad Law Institute (now the Faculty of Law of the St. Petersburg State University ) and worked at the Internal Affairs Commission at Sverdlovsk .

In 1937 he was arrested by the NKVD "Latvian Operations" and, after interrogation, sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Gulag camps. He was the head of the Legal Department of the Uralugo Ural Coal Mining Company, and a legal adviser to the Iron Ore Trust Uralruda from 1939 .

During the Second World War in 1941, he was appointed Chief of the Legal Office of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR People's Commissars for Material Supply and Supply, Sverdlovsk, Legal Adviser of the Uralzolotopravsnab Ural Gold Trust Trust in 1943 . In 1944 he returned to Latvia with the Red Army and worked as a state arbitrator in Daugavpils , then in Riga.

After the end of the war from 1945 to 1948, Reinhold Baliņš was the Chief of Law Department of the Latvian SSR Council of Ministers . From 1948 he was a lawyer in Riga's 1st legal counsel, in 1955 he was criticized for "wrong" defense of his clients. 2

On September 30, 1987, he retired, died on June 30, 1988.

Awards
Medal "For Heroic Work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945" Medal "Thirty Years since the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945" "Veteran of Labor" medal
Family
Been married twice, two sons from the first marriage. The eldest son Ermen Baliņš (1933-1995) 3 was an architect and musician.

Chess
He was also known as chess player and chess organizer. In April 1942, he organized a chess champion tournament in Sverdlovsk 4, including one of the strongest chess players in Latvia, Vladimir Petrov . 5After returning to Latvia, Balikis became President of the Republican Chess Section on November 16, 1944, and later worked as the Chairman of the Latvian SSR Joint Republic Chess and Checkers Club, and from 1959 he was a member of the Presidium of the Latvian SSR Chess Federation. In the late 1940s and the first half of the 1950s, Reinhold Baliņš also showed his best results in chess competitions, although he was only able to take part in the chess tournaments that took place in Riga because of his busy work. Already in December 1944, a Latvian and Estonian chess tournament was held in Riga , where Balts shared 5 - 7. The winner was Estonian Grand Master Paul Keress . The 1945 Baltic Chess Championship also took place in Riga. It was won by the strongest of that timeLithuanian chess player Vlad Mikens , but Balinese was ranked 12th. 6 In 1946, a category I chess tournament was held in Riga, where Balinese shared 3 - 4. place. 7 In 1946, under the leadership of Balys, a memorial to Frech Apsheniek took place 8, and in 1947, a memorial to Herman Matison . 9 In 1948 Baliņš became a chess champion in Riga 10 and represented the Latvian team in the first round of the USSR team championship. 11 14 times Baliņš has participated in the finals of the Latvian Chess Championship . The highest achievement is twice divided by 2 - 3. place (1949, 1952).

Places in Latvian Chess Championships
1945 - 4-6 place.
1946 - 6th place.
1947 - 11th place.
1948 - 8th-9th place.
1949 - 2 - 3 place.
1950 - 9th place.
1951 - 16-17 place.
1952 - 2 - 3 place.
1953 - 13th place.
1954 - 18th place.
1955 - 10-13 place.
1956 - 11-12. place.
1958 - 17-18. place.
1966 - 14-15 place.

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Games

Event "Latvian championship"
Site "Riga LAT"
Date "1945.??.??"
EventDate "1945.07.07"
Round "?"
White "Kruzkops, Janis"
Black "Balins, Reinholds"
Result "1-0"
Source "rusbase"

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. h3 O-O 6. Be3 Nbd7 7. e5 Ne8 8. Bc4 Nb6 9. Bb3 d5 10. Qd2 c6 11. Bh6 f5 12. h4 Be6 13. h5 g5 14. Bxg5 Nc7 15. Qf4 Kf7 16. Bh6 Rg8 17. Ng5+ Ke8 18. Bxg7 Rxg7 19. Ne2 Bg8 20. h6 Rg6 21. Qxf5 e6 22. Qxg6+ hxg6 23. h7 Bxh7 24. Nxh7 Kf7 25. f4 Qe7 26. Ng5+ Kg8 27. O-O-O Re8 28. Rh6 Qg7 29. Rdh1 Re7 30. c3 Nd7 31. Bc2 Nf8 32. Ng3 Ne8 33. Nf1 Nc7 34. Ne3 Ne8 35. Ng4 b5 36. R6h3 Nh7 37. Rxh7 Qxh7 38. Rxh7 Rxh7 39. Nxh7 Kxh7 40. Nf6+ 1-0

Janis Kruzkops vs R Balins, 1945

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Event "Riga championship"
Site "Riga LAT"
Date "1965.??.??"
Round "?"
White "Balins, Reinholds"
Black "Shulte"
Result "0-1"
Source "365Chess"

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. b3 g6 4. Bb2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 d6 7. O-O e5 8. e3 Nc6 9. d4 e4 10. Ne1 Bg4 11. Qd2 Qc8 12. d5 Nd8 13. Nc3 Re8 14. Nb5 Qd7 15. a4 Nh5 16. Bxg7 Nxg7 17. Qc2 f5 18. h3 Bh5 19. Nc3 Nf7 20. g4 fxg4 21. Nxe4 Rxe4 22. Bxe4 Ng5 23. f4 gxf3 24. Bxf3 Qxh3 25. Qg2 Qh4 26. Qh2 Nh3+ 27. Kg2 Nf5 28. Nc2 Bxf3+ 29. Kxf3 Rf8 30. Qd2 Ng5+ 31. Kg2 Qe4+ 32. Kg1 Nf3+ 33. Rxf3 Qxf3 34. Qg2 Nxe3 35. Nxe3 Qxe3+ 36. Kh1 Rf5 0-1

R Balins vs Shulte, 1965